resilienceSci on Twitter- resilienceSci: Agricultural regime shift in Texas: long term aquifer depletion+drought= loss of vast areas of farm land http://t.co/fsYyuaJxD5 #resilience May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Listening to 1st 1/2time seminar in SRC's sustainability science program: Rebecka Malinga on managing ecosystem services in ag landscapes May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Fun SRC discussion on useful approaches to linking models (ABMs to causal loops) to statistics (regressions to random forests) in #SES May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Diversity of and trends in inequality in OECD great to see important after tax & transfer inequality key http://t.co/hcIZIqGlbO May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Reforming Global trade networks - Public Outrage Over Factory Conditions Spurs Labor Deal #ranaplaza http://t.co/LKp8IEZiOP May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @leafwarbler: An open letter from Prof. Madhav Gadgil to the Kasturirangan panel: Shocking betrayal on Western Ghats http://t.co/UWiwwX1… May 18, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @BrankoMilan: (1/2) What 3 countries were greatest econ failures of XXc? #Congo, #Haiti, #Niger. Their today's GDPpc is <1/2 of what it … May 18, 2013
- resilienceSci: 3rd Int. Science & policy conference on the resilience of social & ecological systems May 4-8 2014 Montpellier France http://t.co/JU84cvVJaV May 17, 2013
- resilienceSci: @corrinecash_ I'm ecological, but I care about how people shape and are shaped by ecosystems & therefore I'm interested in social science May 17, 2013
- resilienceSci: Resilience 2014 conference May 4-8, 2014 in Montpellier, France is now accepting abstracts & session proposals http://t.co/Si6ynkEjAV May 17, 2013
Tag Archives: disaster sociology
How resilient is the Pakistan government to floods?
Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid, author of many books on the geopolitics of central Asia, writes about the continuing floods in Pakistan in the New York Review of Books. He argues that the floods have the potential to further weaken the … Continue reading
Posted in Inequality, Vulnerability
Tagged Ahmed Rashid, disaster sociology, natural disaster, Pakistan, Rashid
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Haiti, Disaster Sociology, Elite Panic, and Looting
In her book, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster writer Rebecca Solnit describes how people responded to disasters – from San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake to the Halifax explosion of 1917 to New … Continue reading
Posted in New Orleans
Tagged disaster sociology, Haiti, Hurricane Katrina, Lee Clarke, Rebecca Solnit
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